Context, Confirmation Bias, and the Crash of MetroJet 9286
By Allison Hodgkins With ISIS-inspired attacks cropping up almost every week, the October 31, 2015, crash of MetroJet…
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Sleeper Agents or Big Yawn? Waiting for Returned Foreign Fighters
Guest post by David Malet. Western governments, increasingly alarmed by ISIS-inspired attacks in the West and fearing the…
What the Algerian Civil War Can Teach Us About Combating ISIS
Guest post by Kevin Greene In an op-ed for The National, Dr. Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck notes the similarities between…
Democracy Is Still the Most Effective Tool to Fight Terrorism
Guest post by Belgin San-Akca In upcoming years, one of the most – if not the most –…
On the (In)Sufficiency of Winning in Ground Combat
By Celestino Perez, Jr. for Denver Dialogues General Mark Milley, the chief of staff of the U.S. Army, offers direct guidance…
Revisiting West Germany’s Response to Terror in the 1970-80s
By Will H. Moore Peter Katzenstien’s 1990 monograph, West Germany’s Internal Security Policy: State and Violence in the…
Why the Islamic State is so Bad at Being a State
Guest Post by Megan Stewart for Denver Dialogues As it conquered territory throughout Syria and Iraq, the Islamic…
A Woman Did That? Thoughts on Women Perpetrators of Violence
by Trishna Rana and Marie Berry for Denver Dialogues When news of another mass shooting, this time in…
Mapping the Network Effects of a Militarized Policy in Mexico
Guest post by Lee Cotton and Cassy Dorff for Denver Dialogues. Overview: Drug-trafficking organizations (DTOs) have long been…
More Education = Less Terrorism? Studying the Complex Relationship Between Terrorism and Education
Guest post by Sarah Brockhoff, Tim Krieger & Daniel Meierrieks. In the aftermath of terrorist attacks, education is often…